Just about to finish TNG Season 2, I only watched the odd episode on television in the 90’s and ST: Enterprise is the only complete series I have binged....
To be clear, saying this can cause cancer is similar to saying that water will be classified as toxic.
Cancer is a genetic/cellular lottery we play every day. Consuming certain substances can change those odds. We’re talking 1 in a Trillion (a number I pulled out of my ass, to be clear), and perhaps consuming aspartame changes that to 100 in a Trillion. 100x more likely to get cancer? Not really.
Just like how water is classified as toxic if you drink too much (cellular over-hydration) consuming too much aspartame can cause cancer.
Though I suppose it remains to be seen. I’m making broad assumptions and I’ll wait for the professionals and studies and scientific journals to tell me what’s what.
Example: Lemmy Federated Airlines Flight 360 crashes with no survivors. Now the Lemmy Federation Air Crash Investigation Bureau finds the Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit voice recorder, and they take those boxes aboard Lemmy Investigation Bureau Airfleet Flight 180 back to the investigation headquarters for analysis. This...
According to the National Safety Council there are “too few deaths to calculate odds”. (source). So, I’m pretty sure we can call the probability of two extremely-rare events happening independently in succession as near to nothing as makes no odds.
Also, modern combined units (sometimes called CVDRs) are built to withstand multiple impacts, and their storage medium is solid state. It is highly likely that, in the event of this near-impossible scenario, the recorder could be recovered again.
Trained air mishap investigator here (finally get to say that)! The “expiration” is mainly the batteries for the sonar ping in the event of a water recovery. Beyond that, over the timeframe of years corrosion and slow water intrusion can degrade the stored data. On older systems the magnetic tape had a much shorter life before data is lost but on the new solid state ones it is less likely, but still not impervious to time. For Air France 447 they were recovered 2 years after the accident and the data was still viable. There is definitely a time period beyond which data will eventually be lost, but we dont have an exact number for it and it is based on variables such as the exact forces at impact, water depth and dozens of other unknown factors. MH370 for example has only been underwater for 9 years and I would expect much, if not all the data from its boxes to be recoverable at this time. If it goes another 10-15 then we really don’t know but it’s likely something would be on the solid state drives. As MH370 shows the pinger battery is the main time limit because once it’s done the odds of finding the wreckage goes down dramatically.
I don't think many people understand that if they use Lemmy or kbin, they are posting to the fediverse. There are other platforms and will be more to come. Referring to a post on "Lemmy" or "kbin" is like saying you saw a post on your Windows or Mac computer....
I just consistently mention it because it's a huge topic atm and it's to everyone's benefit to clarify. If I'm over here talking about how I'm SO glad I can mute instances willy-nilly as I please but don't mention I'm doing that from kbin, that's going to send a lot of frustrated lemmings scrambling through their settings.
Generic is "(the) fedi/fediverse." But where I'm specifically from may carry connotations in UI or culture for those here, and those not here would maybe prefer a platform name they can actually look up, as has already happened to me once.
I do think the "Blaaah, we got X amount of users and we're the biggest in the fedi!" posts are borderline odd, because yeah, we're not going head to head anymore. The tribalism we've had drilled into us for decades, we have no need of now and I don't wanna see any of the platform politics that's always been in the past. Thankfully, it seems to be stemming from genuine enjoyment instead of elitist gloating, and it keeps itself to a minimum.
The youngest of the patients at Alcor is two-year-old Matheryn Naovaratpong, a Thai girl with brain cancer, who was cryopreserved in 2015, reports Reuters.
“Both her parents were doctors, and she had multiple brain surgeries,” More tells the publication. “Nothing worked, unfortunately. So, they contacted us.”
This is a bit chilling. How do you begin to move on with your lifeif you’re holding out hope that your loved one will be revived one day? What happens to this girl’s body once her parents die? What happens if they beat the odds and master cryo and the girl gets revived in 100 years? That sounds incredibly traumatic.
Yes, it didn’t take long for somebody to accuse me of being a literal nazi. Those are odd people, though. Don’t tend to meet them in the real world, only on the internet.
Meta (the corporation behind Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram) created a new platform called Threads. It’s basically a Twitter with Zuckenberg instead of Elon Musk. And Meta said that it wants to use the ActivityPub protocol in Threads.
ActivityPub is the protocol used by Mastodon instances to talk with each other. For example, you can post from mastodon.social and someone in social.vivaldi.net can read it and reply, or vice versa. So as soon as Threads uses the ActivityPub protocol, those Mastodon instances will be able to talk with Threads and vice versa.
That sounds good, right? Well… no. Meta, Alphabet/Google, Microsoft, they’re that sort of nasty business that doesn’t play by the rules. Odds are that Meta is trying to use a shitty strategy called Embrace, Extend, Extinguish towards Mastodon. For example, here’s what Meta could do:
enable ActivityPub protocol in Threads. Mastodon users access Threads content and vice versa. Use this to kickstart Threads’ userbase and seed its initial content.
make a few divergent changes in Threads, that give Mastodon users a harder time accessing content in Threads than the opposite. So Mastodon users are encouraged to create Threads accounts.
when there are considerably more people using Threads than Mastodon, Meta “pulls off the plug” of ActivityPub, denying Mastodon users the Threads content that they were able to access. Now Mastodon becomes a ghost town, because most of its users and content are in Threads.
I’m using Mastodon as example but note that this also affects Lemmy, since it also uses the same protocol - it’s how I can see and reply to your post, even if you’re form lemmy.world and I’m from lemmy.ml. So, once Threads implements the ActivityPub, you’ll see Threads leaking into Lemmy too. And in the rest of the Fediverse.
And now all that “facebook stuff” discussion going on is about ways to prevent Meta from ruining Mastodon and potentially the rest of the Fediverse.
It is scary, and the precedent in the world is not for long-term national stability. Even setting aside invasion and occupation, dynasties end, governments fall, and a country’s name might be among its only bits of continuity to the past.
Betting on a country maintaining a continuous government for a hundred years is taking the long odds. Those odds become even worse if the government is relatively new. The USSR lasted less than 70 years, and the current Russian government has only been around a bit over 30(less, if you’d argue that Putin has fundamentally changed it). Stability is truly a bad bet for them in particular.
And they have a giant arsenal of weapons, nuclear and otherwise. “Worrying “ is a fully reasonable response.
That’s a really interesting article, thank you. I played The Cube but had no idea about the winner. The odd thing is that after 8 years of nothing there’s suddenly been a flurry of updates to Godus … I wonder….
It’s odd that the article makes no mention at all of @elonjet, which was spun up after the Twitter account was banned. I don’t see how it’s “moving” anywhere, especially given the Threads/Instagram account just got suspended: Sweeney posted about it on his Twitter, and Engadget updated their article.
Dr. Alberto Espay, a neurologist at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, said that the 27% slowing in the progression of the illness falls below the threshold of what would be “noticeable” to a patient.
“The odds for brain swelling and hemorrhage are far higher than any actual improvement,” said Espay, who launched a petition in June calling for the Alzheimer’s treatment to not get full approval.
Just in the consideration phase, but makes you wonder the timing after the Red Hat move. Maybe alright if they do it the KDE way of needing to manually opt in and not like Cononical’s painful way of manually having to opt out. Or Firefox’s needing to manually opt out though easy.
Personally, I don’t mind this sort of telemetry so long as they’re open about it - which looks to be the plan, at least for the moment.
IMO the FOSS/Linux space has an odd relationship with telemetry that I think should change. I’d like to point out the gnome-info-collect debacle:
GNOME users: "GNOME devs don’t understand what we want!"
GNOME devs: “Hey, we want to get some data on how people use GNOME. If you’d like to help, install and run this one-off tool. Source code is here, and we collect XYZ metrics (all anonymized, of course.)”
(Some) GNOME users: screeching incoherently about data harvesting and telemetry
That’s an odd one. I’ve delt with Unifi at a lot of scales and never heard of them acting up when the controller goes down. Do you perhaps use a guest network with an intercept page? That’s the only thing I can imagine possibly causing any issue.
Do people in socialist countries not care about physical appearance? Odd since I have known people who live in planned group owned collectives and they didn’t look like any uglier or better than the rest of the population.
No. You need both opportunity and a better product.
Reddit shitting the bed was the opportunity that led to lemmy exploding in popularity. Time will tell if it is a better product. I am pretty open that I think lemmy will be a flash in the pan this time, but we might have something “take over” when the actual IPO happens.
Twitter shitting the bed was the opportunity for mastodon and cohost and the like to explode in popularity. Mastodon did, to a much lesser extent, but there was a minor hiccup on sign up that led most users to refusing to try it (and, odds are, a lot of that was propaganda from facebook et al to buy time). So it likely won’t take over. And cohost… is a text heavy version of tumblr. In 2023. I like it but…
But hey, got it. Anyone out there who doesn’t care about their experience at all and only care if something has the right branding makes them a right wing lunatic in your eyes. Good luck with that.
I don’t know if we’ll ever see a full episode with flashbacks to everything he’s been through, but oddly enough I don’t mind the intentionally vague references to it so far–leaves it open for our imaginations (and fan fiction) to fill in the gaps.
Our results suggest that lonely people process the world idiosyncratically, which may contribute to the reduced sense of being understood that often accompanies loneliness....
What are your favourite TNG episodes?
Just about to finish TNG Season 2, I only watched the odd episode on television in the 90’s and ST: Enterprise is the only complete series I have binged....
The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer (www.vox.com)
When a Flight Data Recorder/Cockpit Voice Recorder is found, they are often taken on a plane and flown to an investigation headquarters. But what if the plane carrying those black boxes crash?
Example: Lemmy Federated Airlines Flight 360 crashes with no survivors. Now the Lemmy Federation Air Crash Investigation Bureau finds the Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit voice recorder, and they take those boxes aboard Lemmy Investigation Bureau Airfleet Flight 180 back to the investigation headquarters for analysis. This...
It is not Lemmy or kbin, it is the fediverse. (kbin.social)
I don't think many people understand that if they use Lemmy or kbin, they are posting to the fediverse. There are other platforms and will be more to come. Referring to a post on "Lemmy" or "kbin" is like saying you saw a post on your Windows or Mac computer....
I wonder how often Gary Gygax just rolled a D20 to make life decisions (lemmy.world)
TIL that there are approximately 299 people cryogenically frozen in Scottsdale, Arizona (www.smithsonianmag.com)
The human cryopreservation project faces skepticism from medical and legal authorities
Second largest Lemmy instance preemptively un-friends Facebook (lemmy.ml)
Lemmy.ml has now blocked Threads.net
Could somebody explain whats with the facebook stuff?
Im out of the loop on the meta wanting to do something related to the fediverse. could somebody get me up to date / explain it to me?
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Peter Molyneux teases new project with idea that's "never been seen in a game" before (www.eurogamer.net)
Legendary game developer - and game development tease - Peter Molyneux has discussed his next project, and talked up it…
Britain's far right is booming on Elon Musk's Twitter (www.euronews.com)
Creator of ElonJet Moves His Musk Flight-Tracking Account to Threads (gizmodo.com)
Google Wallet is introducing a pass sharing feature (www.theverge.com)
Which systems or games you always fawned over when you were younger?
Stuff that, back when you were in the economic clutches of your parents, you could but dream of having....
Online dating (lemmy.world)
FDA grants full approval to new Alzheimer's drug meant to slow disease (www.nbcnews.com)
The first approved drug to slow the progression of the illness will come with a strong safety warning about potentially life-threatening side effects.
Fedora Workstation 40 Considering To Implement Privacy-Preserving Telemetry (www.phoronix.com)
Just in the consideration phase, but makes you wonder the timing after the Red Hat move. Maybe alright if they do it the KDE way of needing to manually opt in and not like Cononical’s painful way of manually having to opt out. Or Firefox’s needing to manually opt out though easy.
This is the only time I hate having decided to self host. (i.ibb.co)
I figured most of you could relate to this....
Why are Americans so obsessed with dentistry? (kbin.social)
The dental industry in America is massive. Why is it such an important part of the American lifestyle?
Meta will kill small instances! Please read.
I just read this point in a comment and wanted to bring it to the spotlight....
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x04 "Among the Lotus Eaters"
Written by Kirsten Beyer & Davy Perez...
Lonely people see the world differently, according to their brains (arstechnica.com)
Our results suggest that lonely people process the world idiosyncratically, which may contribute to the reduced sense of being understood that often accompanies loneliness....